In Spottiswood’s _Account of the Religious Houses in Scotland_, it is said that the hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, near Linlithgow, “was formerly governed by the Lazarites.”—(Bp. Keith’s _Catal. of Scotch Bishops_, p. 477, edit. 1824.) It is added that the hospital at Lanark “belonged likewise to this sect.” It does not necessarily follow from the words of the charter in the _Registrum de Neubotle_ (p. 149) that the Friars of St. Lazarus, there spoken of, had their Hospital in Linlithgow. The words are,—“Unam particam terre cum crofto de quarta parte illius tofti quod tenui de Fratribus de Sancto Lazaro in villa de Lynlitgu in burgagis scilicet illum particum terre que iacet ex orientali parte illius tofti.” The object here seems to be rather to indicate the position of the piece of land as being in Linlithgow than to describe the Friars of St. Lazarus as being located there. ENDOWMENTS OF SCOTCH LEPER HOSPITALS, Part I. p. 31. _Glasgow._—In 1593 the rental of the leper-house of Glasgow was £7 : 15s. in money, and 18 bolls of meal.—Wodrow’s _Biographical Collections_, vol. ii. part ii. p. 40; Glasg. 1848, Mait. Club. _Rothfan or Rathven._—In 1563 the money rent of the hospital of Rathven seems to have been £35 : 4s. In 1798 the hospital had 3 acres of land, 6 bolls of oatmeal, and £3 : 15s. of money rent.—_Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff_, vol. ii. pp. 143-145; Aberd. 1847, Spald. Club. NUMBER OF INMATES IN LEPER HOSPITALS. A passage in the will of “old John of Gaunt, time-honour’d Lancaster,” in 1398, seems to support the opinion expressed at p. 18, that the leper hospitals in general did not contain many patients.—“Item, jeo devise a chescun maison de lepres deinz v. lieues entour Londres charges de v. malades, v. nobles en l’onur des v. plaies principalx de Nostre Seigneur, et a ceux qi sont meyns charges, trois nobles en l’onur de la Benoit Trinite.”—(_Testamenta Eboracensia_, vol. i. p. 227; Lond. 1836. Surtees Soc.) DATES OF THE APPEARANCE OF LEPROSY IN GREAT BRITAIN. _Ireland._—Ireland is excluded from consideration, else proof of the existence of leprosy in that island in the end of the seventh century might be adduced. St. Finan, a native of Munster, who died between 675 and 695, “was surnamed Lobhar, or the Leper, from his having been afflicted for thirty years of his life with some cutaneous disorder.”—(Dr. Lanigan’s _Ecclesiastical History of Ireland_, vol. iii. pp. 83-88; Dublin, 1822.) _England._—As to England, says Mr. Albert Way, “it has been affirmed that leprosy was brought into Europe by the Crusaders; in the Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, however, which has been attributed to Aelfric, occurs the word ‘LEPROSUS = hreofliz, oððe, licðrowera,’ Jul. A, II. f. 123.”—(_Promptorium Parvulorum_, vol. i. p. 297; Lond. 1843. Camden Soc.)